History Main / WakeUpMakeup

* There's an interesting moment in ''Film/{{Wishmaster}} 2'' when Morgana makes a snide comment to a male character during a morning scene, "What the matter, never seen a woman without any makeup before?" even though she is clearly wearing makeup.

* ''{{Kanon}}'' does this inconsistently; on occasion, when getting up in the middle of the night to prank Yuuichi, Makoto will have her hair ribbons on. Akiko always seems to have her hair braided, sometimes ridiculously so, as well, regardless of the late hour.

* The Addams Family contains a shot of Morticia lying in bed with her eyes closed and her trademark make up, including red lipstick, false lashses, and sparkly eye shadow. It is suggested that she is just waking up.

* Invoked in the Disney movie ''{{Enchanted}}'', where Giselle wakes up from a night spent on a couch with perfect hair and makeup, looking even better than when she went to bed. "She's a real princess!"

* In ''MyCousinVinny'', Lisa spends the night in the car and wakes up with perfect eye makeup and lip gloss. Her hair is messy, but that's how she wears it normally. She does wipe eye boogers out of the corners, though.

* {{Lampshaded}} and {{Justified}} in ''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus'' when Piper gets a magical blessing that makes her appear perfectly groomed 24/7 for a few days. No matter if she just got out of bed, just finished a fight, or just deliberately mussed up her hair: It goes back to perfection within seconds.

* Averted in ''Series/{{Dexter}}'', in the opening credits which show the titular character engaging in a morning routine that includes shaving off the stubble and flossing his teeth. It makes his PermaStubble that much more noticable in the show proper.

* In ''CSIMiami'', Calleigh ends up having her car go into a swamp. When she emerges, her make-up is perfect.

* The [[{{Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000}} MST3K]] episode ''Devil Doll'' features a DamselInDistress character who goes to bed with full mod '60's style makeup, complete with false eyelashes so long they could be used as diving boards. Later on in the story, she is stricken with a fever and the only alteration to her looks is a light mist that's been sprayed onto her forehead.
* ''GilmoreGirls'':

* Agent Cooper's hair on ''TwinPeaks'' was a particularly humorous aversion given his standard hair helmet. He wakes up with some truly amazing bedhead.
* In ''HannahMontana'', Miley and Lilly always seem to get out of bed with eye makeup, mascara, foundation and lip gloss perfectly in place. They also wear jewelry while sleeping. Averted with Robbie -- although never shown, he has a strict routine of grooming to always keep his hair looking nice.
* Subverted for a small gag in ''TheKingOfQueens''. The B-plot of one episode revolves around Arthur trying to find someone he can pose with, for his photo Christmas greeting card. In the end he tricks Doug and Carrie into waking up and rising from their bed, just at the moment the camera shoots. The resulting photo shows a smiling Arthur, and Doug and Carrie with messy hair and groggy facial expressions.
* Lampshaded on ''WillAndGrace'': [[UpperClassTwit Karen]] emerges from the bathroom with her hair in a towel, but when she removes the towel, her hair is dry, blown-out, and shiny. When Grace asks how she did that, she simply shrugs, "Money."
* Lampshaded in TheNanny - Fran sleeps in make up an with hair done just in case there's ever a fire at the mansion so the firefighters wont forget her over the pretty, young, blonde heiress. Then made fun of when her mother simply wants to know if Fran didn't forget her gold earrings. However it still remains a mystery how Fran's make up has not the slightest smudge. Or how it doesn't even run in the bathtub or after a shower or any of the many big and minor catastrophes she encounters during the show.

* Max from ''Series/2BrokeGirls'' always wears heavy amounts of lipstick and mascara, even while sleeping. Of course, this is Kat Dennings we're talking about. That girl looks like she's wearing makeup even when she isn't.

* Playing with the idea: On ''{{Daria}}'', in one episode the title character filmed a documentary about her sister Quinn, a shallow, appearance-obsessed fashionista. She tried to ambush Quinn in the morning before she had time for makeup; Quinn, stumbling from her room with frizzy hair and frumpy clothes, spots Daria coming up the stairs. She dashes back in her room, and by the time Daria throws open the door and frames the shot, Quinn is dressed in a wrinkle-free pink nightgown, has perfect straight hair and makeup, and is laid out like Sleeping Beauty as she pantomimes waking and greeting the day with grace and poise.
* On ''TheJetsons'', Jane doesn't answer the video phone in the morning without her LatexPerfection "morning mask" that hides her sleepy features and hair curlers. She answers a call from her neighbor, who has the bad luck of having her own mask slip off a minute into the conversation. Jane remarks how embarrassing that must be for her.

* [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] in ''MoralOrel'': Bloberta wakes up before her husband every morning to do her hair and makeup, then "goes back to bed" and waits for him to wake up. When he gets up, he looks groggy and disheveled while she looks perfect. She seems to do this ''just to spite him''.
* At the start of the episode, "The Mane Event," [[ThePowerpuffGirls Bubbles and Buttercup]] avert this Trope with their MessyHair. Blossom's RapunzelHair, on the other hand, plays the Trope [[UpToEleven so straight]], the locks [[EverythingsBetterWithSparkles sparkle]]!
* In {{Disney}}'s Disney/SpringtimeForPluto, when a male caterpillar transforms into a [[SlidingScaleofAnthropomorphism perfectly humanoid]] [[InsectGenderBender female]] butterfly, she pops out of the cocoon complete with dark purple eyeshadow and lipstick, as well as being fully clothed even though the caterpillar had gone into the transformation completely naked save for gloves and shoes. Considering how vigorously the caterpillar was spinning his cocoon, and how much effort it took the butterfly to emerge, you'd think something would be out of place.

* The exact words ("When I wake up/In my make up") appear in the lyrics of ''Hole'''s "Celebrity Skin". In the music video, Courtney Love does wear professional make up. It's not made clear if she slept before the song begins, but she is lying on a coffin-like bed of some sort and she opens her eyes at the beginning.

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->''Extraordinary. You just jumped out of an airplane at 20,000 feet and yet there's not a hair on your head out of place.''
-->-- ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', "A Simple Investigation"

In recent years this has begun to become a DiscreditedTrope, but it's still played straight in far too many shows. In animation this is usually due to a {{Lazy Artist}}'s LimitedWardrobe extending to hair and makeup. Compare MorningRoutine, where adding makeup/beautifying oneself will be shown.

* A UK advertisement for Nescafe involves several young adults waking up in a trashed flat after a night of wild partying, [[WhatDidIDoLastNight acting confused and awkward]], including an implied drunken sexual encounter between two of the characters. And yet despite all this, they all look as fresh-faced and tidy as if they had just arrived, rather than waking up the morning after. Not a hair out of place or a smudge of makeup in sight.

* ''{{Kanon}}'' does this inconsistently (which is odd for a KyotoAnimation work); on occasion, when getting up in the middle of the night to prank Yuuichi, Makoto will have her hair ribbons on. Akiko always seems to have her hair braided, sometimes ridiculously so, as well, regardless of the late hour.

* Averted in ''Series/{{Dexter}}'', in the opening credits which show the titular character engaging in a morning routine that includes shaving off the stubble and flossing his teeth.
** Which makes his PermaStubble that much more noticable in the show proper.

* Elena looks impeccable every time she's shown getting out of bed on ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'', and Vicky looked pretty damn good for a hospital patient.
** So did Caroline in 1X22 and then she was a good looking waking up as a vampire in 2X1.

* ''SoulCalibur''. In the 16th century, no less.
* TheSims, of course.

* Notably averted in [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=613 this page]] of ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt''. Antimony is also shown removing her makeup before bed. Like a normal person.

-->-- ''Series/DeepSpaceNine'', "A Simple Investigation"

* In ''MyCousinVinny'', Lisa spends the night in the car and wakes up with perfect eye makeup and lip gloss. Her hair is messy, but that's how she wears it normally.

When a TV character wakes up in the morning, he or she is always impeccably groomed. You never see [[MessyHair bed-head]], stubbly beards, or crusty eyes unless it's a story point, and even then it's usually just to emphasize either a late night drinking with the boys, or a new baby that's making a lot of demands. In the very worst cases, women arise from eight hours' sleep with perfect makeup, sans the least little smudge.

* DangerDiabolik has Eva, the title character's supermodel-hot girlfriend/accomplice. Even though it seems like she spends hours on end rolling around in bed with her Uberthief lover (amid huge piles of money!), her elaborate glamor makeup is never less than flawless.

* Hilariously inverted in ''{{Disney/Frozen}}'', where Princess Anna wakes up with a tangled mess of hair that looks like a storm hit it.

* ''Series/DoctorWho''

** The Tenth Doctor regenerates with gelled hair.
** Averted with Rose in the first episode of the New Series, however - she wakes up the morning after meeting the Doctor bleary eyed and with terrible bed hair.

* ''HighlanderTheSeries'': In the episode "Pharaoh's Daughter", when Duncan wakes up Nefertiti from her 2000-year slumber as a mummy, she still has perfect hair and makeup.

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* Averted in ''{{Dexter}}'', in the opening credits which show the titular character engaging in a morning routine that includes shaving off the stubble and flossing his teeth.

* When ''{{LazyTown}}'' character Stephanie is seen in the morning in a few episodes, she's not only got perfect hair, she slept in her headband (presumably because the headband is actually part of the wig), and she's wearing pink dance tights under her nightdress. An interesting, gender-swapped version is that villain Robbie Rotten wears obvious eye make-up, yet it is consistently perfect when he is seen waking. Hero Sportacus's clearly waxed pencil mustache is also always perfect upon waking.

* Yuna in ''FinalFantasyX'' awakens ''once'' with bed head (though it's quite hard to tell the difference from the CG model) and the entire cast laughs at her.

* [[JamesBond Bond girls]] are famous for this. Not only do they wake up the morning after an ''active'' night in bed with James with flawless make-up but their hair is unmussed ''and'' they are wearing all their jewelry.

* Lampshaded in the opening scene of ''{{Bridesmaids}}'' when Annie sneaks into the bathroom to put on some makeup before her bedmate wakes up.
* ''[[Film/WhatsYourNumber What's Your Number?]]'' opens with a woman putting on makeup before the man wakes up.

* Rebecca Black at the beginning of the ''Friday'' video.

* The MST3K episode ''Devil Doll'' features a DamselInDistress character who goes to bed with full mod '60's style makeup, complete with false eyelashes so long they could be used as diving boards. Later on in the story, she is stricken with a fever and the only alteration to her looks is a light mist that's been sprayed onto her forehead.

* Averted in [[http://www.awkwardzombie.com/comic1-100509.php this]] ''{{Awkward Zombie}}'' strip. If the 39th panel is anything to go by, Katie sure gets bad bed-head.
* Averted to a disturbing degree in [[http://www.galactanet.com/comic/view.php?strip=537 this]] Webcomic/CaseyAndAndy

* Played with on ADifferentWorld where Whitley wakes up quietly, fixes her hair and make up, and brushes her teeth and then lays back down in bed beside Dwayne before he gets up. He later on comments about how she can look so beautiful first thing in the morning.

* In a Carol Burnett Show spoof of the Esther Williams movie '''Dangerous When Wet''', Carol/Esther dives '''out''' of the pool and wraps her wet hair in a towel. Moments later she removes the towel to reveal completely dry, fully styled hair.

* There's an interesting moment in ''{{Wishmaster}} 2'' when Morgana makes a snide comment to a male character during a morning scene, "What the matter, never seen a woman without any makeup before?" even though she is clearly wearing makeup.